Learning the native language of ancestors is a meaningful way for descendants of immigrants to connect with their heritage

Forgotten recordings made by a pioneering Black academic allow contemporary linguists to hear for the first time how the Creole language forged in Louisiana’s slave trade was spoken by New Orleanians ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28), Chair Emerita of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), CAPAC Chair Grace Meng (NY-06), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Adr...

A small program at the university, the linguistics department has taken pride in documenting endangered languages and preparing the next generation to research language.

A new survey led by The Australian National University (ANU) is inviting multilingual Australians to help researchers build a more complete picture of the languages spoken and signed across the country.Australia may be one of the world’s most multilingual nations, but researchers say the full extent of the country’s linguistic diversity is still not known.Researchers are launching the Languages in Australia Survey, inviting multilingual people across the country to share information about the languages they speak or sign and when they learned them.

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Research finds human languages transmit information at ~39 bits per second through natural balance of speech rate and density.

Research finds human languages transmit information at ~39 bits per second through natural balance of speech rate and density.

The Journal of Immersion and Content-Based Language Education (JICB)invites research and theoretical papers related to all levels (from pre-Kindergarten to university) of language education contexts i...

Language loss is often a reluctant choice made to escape violence, not a willing choice made to gain benefits.

The new proposed standards promise flexibility while projecting roughly 162,000 additional Head Start and Early Head Start slots nationally. Advocates say changes would undermine the quality of curren...

Patients who talk with their doctors in the same language they use at home generally tend to live longer, suggests a recent study by researchers at the University of Ottawa and the University of Mani...

The Migration Policy Institute found 35 states and the District of Columbia offer native language assessments.

A new study coauthored by Yale linguist Claire Bowern suggests that tens of thousands of languages were spoken between 1,000 and 3,000 years ago.